Mattapan child care center serves parents who work off hours
Mattapan has long been a childcare desert, where there are many more young children than there are child care centers to serve them.
Support H.456, An Act to expand access to family, friend, and neighbor-provided childcare
Dear Chair Lewis, Chair Garlick, and members of the Joint Committee on Education, We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to support H.456 An Act to expand access to family, friend, and
Report Sees Untapped Source In Child Care Fight
Michael P. Norton Oct 17, 2023 Massachusetts can unlock a source of needed child care, especially in low-income communities, by increasing the subsidies the state provides to license-exempt [...]
Child care pilot program focuses on Massachusetts parents with off-hour schedules
BOSTON — A new pilot program is providing childcare options to parents, who don’t work the traditional 9-to-5 job. The program is being partially funded by $100 million in state grants. Naomi [...]
Are you a family, friend or neighbor child care provider? Use our calculator to know your wages
Caring for children is an essential job that deserves fair compensation. As a care provider in the family, friends, and neighbor (FFN) network, it’s important to ensure that you are getting paid [...]
Are you a family, friend or neighbor child care provider? Use our calculator to know your wages
Caring for children is an essential job that deserves fair compensation. As a care provider in the family, friends, and neighbor (FFN) network, it’s important to ensure that you are getting paid [...]
Introducing Our New Staff Member, Helen Barrios
Our team is expanding! This month, Care That Works and Building Pathways welcomed Helen Barrios, the new Care That Works Program Coordinator. Helen Barrios is a first-generation Guatemalan [...]
A Massachusetts child tax credit would relieve families
“Families face tough times as child tax credit ends” (Page A1, Jan. 24) exposes the heartbreaking reality of working-class families with young kids. Families depend on multiple forms of [...]
When it takes a village . . . and a day care . . . and a taekwondo instructor to raise a child
Anyone who’s counted on a child-care provider in order to keep their own job knows just how essential — how fundamental — that labor is to a functioning, equitable society. Yet somehow, there’s [...]
Action Alert: Demand flexible child care for MA residents
The pandemic has exposed the inequalities in our state’s child care system. Low-income communities and communities of color — especially Black and Latinx mothers, women of color who own small [...]
